New and noteworthy

Adding new widgets in EEF runtime

In order to improve EEF users experience for EMF models editing, new widgets have been added in the framework's runtime. These widgets are:

SingleCompositionEditor: This widget allows user to edit a 0-1 or 1-1 containment reference on an object.

EReferencesViewer: This widget bring a simplier interface to edit 0-n or 1-n references. The element selection dialog has a cleaner interface for choosing the referenced elements.

vs.

LinkEObjectFlatComboViewer: The LinkEObjectFlatComboViewer is an improved version of the AdvancedEObjectFlatComboViewer but instead of a simple text displaying the referenced object, it's a navigable link.

Bugs fixes

As for any other releases, a set bug have been fixed in the framework.

Quality of APIs

The component lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release.
All non-API code is in "internal" packages.

Committers

2 active committers from Obeo

Goulwen Le Fur (project lead)

Nathalie Lépine

IP Issues

No specific issues have to be noticed for this release.

Non-Code Aspects

Continuous Integration

Project is built from the Eclipse hudson instance through Tycho. A nightly is built once a day if the SCM polling sees a change from the last build.

Testing

207 functional tests are launched on the framework at each continuous integration.
66 are failing but this is due to issues on the testing framework. This state will be corrected in the next releases.

APIs

API is kept compatible with previous verions.

Documentation

All of the documentation for EEF is available from the wiki. It will be completed and extended with tutorial as this version matures.

Bugzilla

86 bugs are open on the EEF bugzilla:

1 Critical

5 Major

53 Normal

6 Minor

1 Trivial

20 Enhancements

Tool usability

Localization : integrated into Babel

Standards

No standard exists concerning the EEF domain.

EEF is usable for any EMF based models, including standards implemented with EMF (UML, BPMN, ...)

Communities

EEF team regulary participate to Eclipse Conventions. Talks has been submitted for the two majors Eclipse events: